Rosario Dawson revealed tonight she is a convert to hypnotherapy after trying it for new film Trance. The Sin City star looked entrancing on the red carpet in a glittering red gown by British designer Jenny Packham, at the premiere of Danny Boyle's new thriller in London's Leicester Square.Dawson's co-stars Vincent Cassel and James McAvoy both claimed they had tried hypnosis as research for the film, but it hadn't worked.And Boyle said he didn't even try it because "directors are control freaks and I don't think they ever relax enough to be a useful subject for a hypnotist".But Dawson, who plays a hypnotherapist in the film, said: "I think it works actually, quite well. I didn't have anything like cigarettes to quit or anything like that."But I remember I went in and gave her an idea of what I wanted to work on in the session. And I laid down and she put a blanket over me because when you go into a trance state it's sort of like being in between sleep and awake, so your body thinks it's falling asleep. So I got cold and then I relaxed and I went along with her voice and it was really comforting. My body did those little spasms that it does when you're falling asleep."And then I woke up and she said 'I know you said you wanted to work on this, but you reacted to this, this and this.' And I was like, 'How can you know all that?!' And she said my foot was kicking when she asked me about a certain thing."So it's actually quite interesting that your conscience will reveal itself, and if you're trained to read that, people give a lot of tells. It's almost like poker. We think we're hiding things, but we're not."So it was really great for me to experience that, because the premise of the film is that hypnotherapy works on such a strong level."So it was really necessary for me to believe that, and having been through that I gained a lot of respect for the profession, I have to say."McAvoy plays a fine art auctioneer who gets mixed up with a criminal gang, headed by Cassel's character, who join forces with a hypnotherapist played by Dawson to try to recover a lost painting.Dawson and Boyle were rumoured to be dating after working on the film, and she was his guest at the Olympic Opening Ceremony. But it was revealed earlier this month that they have split.Boyle insisted they all became friends off camera.He said: "With a three-hander like this, casting was absolutely everything and we were lucky to be able to attract Vincent Cassel, James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson to play the three parts."And they were great friends off camera."On camera you get the natural competitive instinct of actors to say, 'This film is about me'. And they do battle in a way."

Find more about how Rosario Dawson was converted to hypnotherapyThe Independent.

The definition of the word happiness is as "Happiness is a state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy".

Very often we forget what we have and we just concentrate on things we don't have. We also fail to realise what we want is not necessarily what we need.

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The poster puts things into perspective. Most of us in the western world have all the necessities which are food, clothes and a home but instead we still feel poor. Just because we focus on the things we think we should have rather than what we have and really need to have to live.

Remember happiness comes within, you can be a millionaire and be seriously unhappy and suicidal. Money it self does not bring happiness. It is your response to someone and something which makes you happy. Nobody and nothing can make you feel happy but you.

Hypnosis has always been surrounded by an air of scepticism but recently people’s opinions have started to change, as Professor Peter W Halligan, of Cardiff University’s School of Psychology, explains HYPNOSIS uses the powerful effects of suggestion to produce and modify a wide range of compelling experiences and clinical symptoms. With its origins in Mesmerism, and later associations with mysticism, quackery, literary fiction and stage entertainment, it is understandable that formal research involving hypnosis was not always been valued or believed by mainstream science. This however, is changing. Recently, hypnosis has begun to attract renewed interest from cognitive and social neuroscientists interested in using hypnosis and the striking effects of hypnotic suggestion to test predictions about normal psychological functions but also to explore how simulating symptoms from clinical conditions using hypnosis may help better understand the responsible brain systems involved. Common misconceptions about hypnosis include the belief that hypnosis is a form of sleep or that many of the striking effects produced by targeted suggestions can only be generated in hypnosis. In fact, studies have shown that responses to the same suggestions with and without a hypnotic induction can be very similar and that difference between the two conditions is small. Participants in hypnosis studies typically describe the perceptual and behavioural changes experienced in response to suggestion as “real” and beyond their voluntary control. They also report these experiences as not imaginary and not simple compliance with what they think the experimenter wants to hear or had suggested. Understandably, scepticism remains regarding the credibility of these first person reports, however, several recent studies have provided persuasive evidence for the objective “reality” of hypnotic experience, using targeted suggestions that disrupt automatic, unconscious processes over which participants are thought to have little or no control. Many but not all people are responsive to hypnotic suggestion but only a minority are strongly responsive – which makes them good subjects for research studies. Subjects who are highly hypnotisable are capable of experiencing short-term amnesia or fleeting hallucinations. Under hypnosis, many of these are capable of being convinced that their limbs feel heavier, or experiencing temporary changes in their ability to make movements. One of the particular conditions that colleagues and I have found very informative is psychogenic paralysis – sometimes described as hysterical motor conversion. This is a debilitating condition where despite not having evidence of brain damage, patients are unable to move their limbs. Patients with similar “functional” or “psychogenic” conversion disorders can comprise between 30 and 40% of patients attending neurology outpatient clinics and place a huge strain on public health services. Using neuroimaging and other methods, my colleagues and I have demonstrated the involvement of distinctive brain regions in highly hypnotizable individuals who experienced paralysis-like experiences, which could be turned “on” and “off”. When compared to the actual movements of the limb, the suggested paralysis condition revealed increased activity in brain regions know to be active during motor planning and intention to move – and also brain areas involved in response selection and inhibition. Comparing symptoms conveyed by conversion disorder patients and those produced by “paralysis” suggestions in hypnosis, also revealed similar patterns of brain activation associated with attempted movement of the affected limb. Collectively these findings could inform future studies of the brain mechanisms underpinning limb paralysis in patients with conversion disorders and could inform effective treatments. Far from being a mystical process, the neuropsychological exploration of hypnotic suggestion has begun to highlight the importance of the often neglected process of suggestionability. The psychological disposition to respond to suggestion (for example, placebo) is universal and remains one of the most remarkable but least researched psychological processes involving human behaviour and consciousness.Read more: Wales Online http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health-news/2013/03/18/hypnosis-has-a-lot-to-offer-patients-says-professor-of-psychology-91466-33008108/#ixzz2NujDBjxt

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Have you ever thought about the side effects that medication can have on you? How many of us read the drug ingredients or the side effects of the medicine the doctor gives us?

Without revealing much information on the movie plot and ruining it for those who have not seen it yet the story revolves on the side effects a prescribed drug had on a depressed patient. One of the drug side effects was sleep walking and the patient not being able to remember.

Many of us look for a magical cure, a pill that can change immediately the way we think and feel. For many problems prescription drugs can have a positive impact to our health and well being but sometimes we have to make our own changes. Prescription drugs can make us feel good but at the same time do not change the problems and the situations we are facing, maybe they make us more relaxed and have a better reaction to the problem but they don't take away the problem.

At Birmingham Hypnotherapy Clinic we help you make the emotional changes you need to live a happier better life. In the past we have helped people with problems that prescription drugs have not helped. Very often the problem is how we think rather than the